How to Gain Weight But Not Get Fat
As a hardgainer if you expect to gain a significant amount of muscle weight you will often have to put on a bit of fat in order to make progress. In large part overeating will make up for bad genetics. That is, you may not have the best muscle building genetics in the world but [...]
Rep Speed for Power, Strength and Size
The speed in which you execute a certain movement refers to term tempo or rep speed. The tempo being used can determine the after effect the lift has on the muscle group. The movement can be of two things when you lift a weight. It can be mere work that tires out the muscle or [...]
Increasing Muscular Strength through Weight Training
The workout principles I will give you in this article will be mostly for maintenance and possibly some slight improvements in strength depending on how much endurance training you do. Notice how I said principles, I am not going to give direct workout plans here no matter how much people love to have everything laid [...]
How many reps should you be doing?
Deciding on the amount of repetitions that you do depends upon what you are trying to accomplish. Do you want to gain muscle mass? If you want to gain muscle mass you should be doing 6-10 repetitions at 70-80% of your maximum weight. Find out what your maximum weight is by doing a given exercise [...]
Spotting Techniques
Let me start out by saying that this is a big responsibility for either party. Choose your spotter wisely and make sure that you spot to your abilities. * Pay attention to the person you are spotting at all times. Don’t look at the pretty girl across the room doing deep knee bends. * Be [...]
